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Homeland Protection

Developing technology to keep the nation safe

A vital mission of the U.S. government is to secure the nation from the many threats it faces. We support this mission by assessing, prototyping, and deploying innovative technology that helps reduce the nation's vulnerability to terrorism, facilitate recovery from disasters, protect infrastructure, and improve the health of civilians.

We work to improve U.S. defenses against chemical or biological attacks by conducting experiments to improve our understanding of these threats, applying modeling and simulation to determine advanced capability requirements, and assessing system performance to validate operation in real-world environments, like subway systems.

We assess emerging technologies and their abilities to help protect and prevent a threat to the United States, while considering their potential to cause harm if in the wrong hands. These assessments require us to simulate scenarios, conduct physics-based analyses, and prototype systems that we then evaluate in the field.

We use our experience developing sensors and decision support software to build systems that are used around the world for coordinating responses to wildfires, aiding urban search-and-rescue missions, assessing damage after hurricanes and earthquakes, and planning for large-scale evacuations.